Re: PEAR::DB, backends and assertExtension

Markus Fischer wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 01:22:44AM +0200, Stig S. Bakken wrote : > > No you haven't overseen anything, so feel free to make it > > suff^H^H^H^Hconsistent :-) > > Ok, done. > > If something broke (shouldn't, tested as far as I could) I'll > fix it. > > Some questions which came up my mind: > > .) Why do have php extension names and pear::db backends > different names? E.g. 'informix' => 'ifx' ? Not sure about this one. It applies to ifx (Tomas) and ibase (Sterling). > .) What do you think about a static method of DB which returns an > array of all supported db extension and a function which > returns only currently installed extensions ? > > array DB::supported_extensions(); > > Either return a fixed array which has to be maintained > or make it magic to scan through DB/ > > and > > array DB::installed_extensions(); > > Which also tries to load missing compiled-in extensions > so the result is accurat. We can do that if the DB backends are renamed to match the extensions. - Stig